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The complete
collapse
of yet another country is the last thing the world – including Trump – needs.
A similar degree of complacency was evident in the United States before the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.
Indeed, the world’s financial system is still feeling the aftershocks of the Lehman
collapse.
Indeed, with the US financial sector on the brink of collapse, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 moved up the effective date for offering interest on reserves by three years, to October 1, 2008.
Little did the world know then, economies would collapse, currencies would become worthless, elections would be stolen, regimes would fall.
When the cross-border interbank market stopped working this summer, a similar economic
collapse
was avoided only because the ECB, without much fanfare, became the eurozone’s central clearing house.
If the Greek people decide in a referendum to default, the ECB will incur large losses, as much of its collateral would become worthless and the Greek banking system would
collapse.
The international press has reported the
collapse
of Venezuela’s economy, of its health system, of personal security, and of constitutional rule and human rights.
The reality is that they were the perpetrators, not the victims, and it seemed particularly galling that they were continuing to hold a gun to the heads of governments, demanding massive bailouts and threatening economic
collapse
otherwise.
Ultimately, limiting the ECB to its conventional tool kit amounts to accepting the risk of a eurozone
collapse.
With the support of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, President George W. Bush pushed through a tax cut designed to benefit the richest Americans but not to lift the economy out of the recession that followed the
collapse
of the Internet bubble.
Just as the
collapse
of the real estate bubble was predictable, so are its consequences: housing starts and sales of existing homes are down and housing inventories are up.
The daily horrors that Aleppo’s besieged citizens are now experiencing mark a new low point, following the
collapse
of the latest ceasefire, brokered by the United States and Russia, which disturbingly fell apart precisely at the same time that world leaders were gathered together for the United Nations General Assembly.
In the end, either the euro will collapse, or a transfer union will be established in Europe, in which the current-account deficits will be financed with inter-country donations.
The TPP initiative should be viewed against this background, and not just in the context of the
collapse
of the Doha Round.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s ouster in Tunisia signalled the
collapse
of the Arab “stability” model, praised by many Western leaders, consisting of authoritarianism and overrated economic performance.
The US – and Europe – are keen to avoid a sudden
collapse
of the Egyptian regime.
And, given the turmoil unleashed following the Soviet Union’s sudden
collapse
in 1991 – and the subsequent failure of democracy there – one might reasonably question the merits of China inviting a similar upheaval by abandoning the path of gradual reform.
Having learned from the
collapse
of the Soviet Union that a bureaucratic ruling party must co-opt new social elites to deprive potential opposition groups of leaders, the Communist Party has conducted an effective campaign of expanding its social base.
Time is running out on the West, because both Europe and America have yet to digest the fact that all the individual crises of the last few years – from the sub-prime crisis and the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers to Greek austerity and Ireland’s near-bankruptcy – are symptoms of a deeper problem: a world undergoing a far-reaching, irreversible, and, indeed, unprecedented restructuring of economic power.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is one leader who seems to recognize how quickly the
collapse
of US leadership could bring about the end of the post-1945 global order.
The ECB contends that the core economies of the global North – Germany, France, Britain, the United States, and Japan – are now at the point where they need rapid fiscal retrenchment and austerity, because financial markets’ confidence in the quality of their debt is shaken, and may
collapse
at any moment.
Yet, as I look at the world economy, I see a very different picture – one in which markets’ trust in the quality of government liabilities of the global North’s core economies most certainly is not on the brink of
collapse.
Some never returned from that intellectual journey, despite the
collapse
of communism.
Maduro’s government blames its economic
collapse
on an “economic war” led by the US, the oligarchy, and international financial Zionism, of which I am supposedly an agent.
At a time when strong, coordinated action is needed to stave off financial
collapse
in the European Union, the popular support that drove European integration over the last six decades is waning.
Given that Iran came to the table to negotiate the JCPOA less than a year after an earlier exchange-rate
collapse
– by 200% as of October 2012 – it is not entirely unreasonable to believe that the government will bow to Trump’s demands.
In times of crisis it had a negative impact – although integration has prevented currency
collapse
or the write-off of national debt, occurrences that we have witnessed during previous crises in emerging markets.
One reason for this is widespread pessimism about Japan’s economy, reinforced by volatility in China, monetary tightening in the United States, and the
collapse
in world oil prices.
For starters, it is based on the claim that, at the time of the Berlin Wall’s
collapse
and the Soviet Union’s disintegration, the West promised that there would be no NATO expansion.
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